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The skinny dark "sticks" are rusted out rebar. Linda Lemmon photo.


Peake Brook Rd. to close for bridge replacement

By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
WOODSTOCK — Officials will be closing Peake Brook Road in Putnam and Woodstock so that the bridge over Peake Brook can be replaced.
The road will be closed to through traffic May 1 and officials hope the project will be finished by Aug. 15.
The project, which was put out to bid by the town of Woodstock last fall, consists of replacing the existing bridge with a 20-foot span, precast concrete three-sided ridged frame (box culvert) and associated roadway improvements.
Water has come over top, onto Peake Brook Road several times and the edges are washed out. Stones have been placed to try to stop the erosion; however, the concrete edges are eroding. Rebar sticking up from the edges is skinny and rusted.
Currently trees are being cut down and stakes mark where silt fences will go.

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